Black-eye peas, anyone?

[Gempress]

Does anybody here eat black-eye peas for New Year's? Pretty much everyone does in the area where I live. Mmmm. Nothing like a simmering pot of black-eye peas and ham, with a side of collard greens and corn bread. And besides being tasty, it's good luck!

If you don't eat black-eye peas, do you have any other New Year's traditions?

 

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[Gempress]

LOL! Ummm....no.

 

[GipsyQueen]

I've never had black-eyes peas, actually! :yikes: Is that bad?
We ushally have Onion Soup ^^ mmmm Yummy! But this year I'm not celebrating with my family so I don't know what I'm having!

 

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opcorn:

 

[Buddy'sParents]

Never had them before but whoosiewhatsit Rachel Ray does a lot of cooking with them. Maybe I'll try them one day.

 

[Saintgirl]

I have never even heard of this tradition! Growing up we always had a ham dinner for New Years, but that was only our family tradition, and because it is a fav of mine (New Years day is my Birthday, so I always got to chose dinner!)

Now I prefer lobster!!

 

[bubbatd]

An original old black bean soup here !! I don't have a ham bone though !! Will probably take it up to Nashnsegers as it's Nash's Daddy's birthday too !!!

 

[Gempress]

Heh. I bought a small ham today just to get the hambone for the black-eyes! I felt so silly. But they just don't taste the same without a hambone.

 

[jess2416]

Yep my family does the black-eyed peas, corn bread, and collard greens tradition too, although I just eat the corn bread LOL

 

[boneyjean]

We eat black eyed peas for New Year's. I make mine with a can of rotel and bacon and broth. Like a soup sort of. We will probably have steaks and maybe some sweet potatoes cut up, seasoned and baked. Oh, and some corn bread and collards wouldn't be bad with that either!

 

[bubbatd]

I may buy some ham hocks .....

 

[Zoom]

I don't care for the BEP so much, but I do like the broth and corn bread. Don't really have any food traditions for New Years though...

 

[Sunnierhawk0]

It def must be a texas/southern thing, because every year on News Years my aunt cooks up a big pot of Black Eyed Peas and sweet cornbread... yummmmmy

 

[Renee750il]

Errrggghhhhh . . . . My favorites

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

no black eye peas tradition here (although I did have some last night tossed into a chicken stir fry!)---our New Year Tradition is having a Pork roast, and sauerkraut--a German tradition. You must eat both, for good luck and good fortune!

 

[ihartgonzo]

I have never had Black-Eye Peas... but I have heard about the tradition, and my grandmother makes it. She's from the south. I couldn't eat it because of the ham, anyway.

My menu for this New Years Eve includes alcohol... alcohol... and more alcohol! C;

 

[milos_mommy]

never heard of that tradition.

we eat nachos, pigs in blankets, and buffalo wings.

 

[ACooper]

When I lived at home my mom always made a pot of black eyed peas, sauerkraut & sausage, and some cornbread as well. We HAD to have some of everything on our plate. Some superstition of health & wealth for the new year.

At my own house I have not carried on the tradition but I do normally cook a very nice meal & desert. Haven't decided what exactly that will be this year.........but I am thinking something that my daughters can have a large hand in

 

[mjb]

Growing up in Georgia we always had black-eyed peas for New Years. My mother cooked them with hog jowl, also part of the tradition, supposedly. She just seasons them with pork of some sort now.

I have continued the black eyed peas here. I can't remember ever not having blackeyed peas on New Years. We had a honey-baked ham for Christmas, and the bone will be going in the peas.